My Brooke

This girl has been a ray of sunshine ever since she joined our family nearly 3 years ago. As you can tell by these photos, she has a really happy and funny personality. She loves making people laugh, telling "jokes" and making funny faces.
She is completely smitten with her Daddy. Whenever he's been gone and she hears the door slam, she goes running down the hall while screaming "It's my Daaaaaaad!"
She definitely loves me too! I got home from my run this morning and she came over, hugged my leg and said " Hi Mom. I love you Mom."
Brooke loves her 'pink baby' and 'sister baby'. Can't go to sleep without pink baby.
Beams with pride when she knows she has done something right. We've taught her how to pull the blankets up over her when she's cold at night. When we tuck her in, we let her pull the blankets over her. Once she has completed the task, she looks at us with a huge smile on her face because she knows we are going to praise her for it.
Brooke is very easily startled or scared. She hates loud noises, hates when we tell her "no" {but she usually is scared by us telling her hastily, not the fact that we said no} hates when we laugh loudly. She has a very tender heart and will typically cry after one of these things happens.
She's getting better at being prepared to expect the loud noises when she sees Grandma about to use the blender or me using the hair dryer. She tells everyone in her vicinity to 'plug your ears'. One time, I was blow drying my hair upstairs with the door open and Brooke yelled up at me to "Close the door! Too loud!"
She gets frustrated when trying to learn something new and wants to give up or have us do it for her. Once she gets it down though, she is as proud as can be.
She still is dying to take ballet and dance classes.
Picky about some foods, but most of the time we can bribe her with candy or say something like "But Brooke, these are special yummy squiggly noodles that you love!"
She nods her head a lot more now to respond instead of using verbal cues.

We LOVE Brooke.